“The Ohioana Book Festival is a welcome reminder of the powerful friend we have in a generous author who gifts us with a well-written book.” – Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland in Over the Back Fence May/June 2009

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another human being is giving. Giving freely in and of itself is a thing of beauty: no expectations, no focus on what will come back to you or be returned, but giving for the sake of giving. Giving to another from you, when done correctly, is a selfless act. Your total concentration is on the other individual or group, company, team, or organization. It is from the heart.

We (Rose and Darryl) belong to a group based around key concepts found in the bestselling book, The Go-Giver. These are called ‘The Five Laws of Stratopheric Success.’ They reflects many of the principles we ourselves promote and practice. We highly recommend this book along with another book called, Life’s Journey. Here are some questions to ponder regarding the ‘Right Giving.’

Where do you currently see yourself as a ‘giving’ individual?
What actions must you take to achieve movement from where you are currently at to where you want to be?
What behaviors, knowledge,and skills need to be developed or acquired to successfully accomplish this growth?

Share your thoughts, ideas, and insights with us here and on our Forum at www.facebook.com/thelearningservice It’s all about you!

The 2012 Ohioana Book Festival
Celebrating Ohio’s Authors
Saturday May 12th, 2012
10AM – 4:30PM
Fort Hayes Metropolitan
Education Center
546 Jack Gibbs Blvd.
Columbus, OH 43215

“The Ohioana Book Festival is a welcome reminder of the powerful friend we have in a generous author who gifts us with a well-written book.”
- Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland in Over the Back Fence May/June 2009

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

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Here we go again! Our next, ‘Let the Journey Begin!’ program will be on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 from 4:30pm – 6pm. You are very welcome to attend. However, due to the great attendance of our last program we are limiting the group to fifteen participants. Please let us know by Monday, April 2, 2012 if you will be attending. Hope to see you there!

To review all the details go to: http://linkd.in/zyBrrK.

Create a master plan of your right future!

*A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place (Your destiny.) Typically, this is a physical journeying (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system. In the spiritual literature of Christianity, the concept of pilgrim and pilgrimage may refer to the experience of life in the world (considered as a period of exile) or to the inner path of the spiritual aspirant from a state of wretchedness to a state of beatitude.

Best regards,

Darryl and Rose

Let the Journey Begin! — Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A new program to create a master plan of your right future
Please register by Monday April 2, 2012. Program is limited to 15 participants.
Reserve your spot today!
This program will systematically help you:
•Identify forces in your life that are significant factors right now
•Encourage you to take charge of your life
•Direct you to make specific decisions that positively impact your life
•Empower you to take action for positive change
•Provide the means to take control of your own future

The program includes a copy of the authors’ newest book:

Life’s Journey and Life’s Journey Personal Journal
Find Your Place to Stand and Build the Right Future
By Darryl S. Doane and Rose D. Sloat with David S. Doane, Ph.D.

To truly succeed in business and life, you need a plan and a process. Life’s Journey guides you in developing both. It is packed full of practical ideas, tools and action steps both individuals and organizations need to take stock of where they currently are, set their goals and priorities and achieve them.

The book is organized into 27 life units that represent the steps in your journey. They focus on values, partnerships, passion, creativity, dreams, confidence and 21 other areas of life. Each life unit includes three sections. Insights are thought-provoking and fundamental questions we never take time to ask ourselves. Musings from the Doctor are comments from Dr. Doane (Darryl’s brother and a contributing author for this work) that will give you additional insight. Life Unit Discoveries will help you determine the actions, behavior, knowledge and skills that will move you to your future.

Take the next steps with Life’s Journey: A Personal Journal. This companion book draws on all you learned about yourself in the authors’ first book to take you even farther along your journey. If you need an extra dose of motivation, this journal is just the thing to help you stay focused and committed. A journey begins with one step at a time. This journal provides more than 65 lined pages which you can date and use to record your daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress.

Where: Creative Source Design Group
4623 Everhard Rd. NW
Canton, Ohio 44720

When: April 3, 2012 – 4:30pm to 6pm
Investment: $59.95 (includes Life’s Journey Book and Journal)
Contact information: The Learning Service, Ltd. 330-456-2422 learningservice@sbcglobal.net

Please register by Monday April 2, 2012. Program is limited to 15 participants.
Reserve your spot today! Please pay in advance by check or credit card.
We accept all major credit cards.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Live music, food carts, exhibits, fun-loving crowds and….books—lots and lots of books! The Ohioana Library’s goal, as it prepares to present the 6th annual Ohioana Book Festival, is creating a festival that brings readers, writers and books together for an inspiring, fun, learning experience.
Nearly 100 authors, including 10 who are designated as “featured,” will be at the festival with new books they have published within the past 16 months. The main event will be held on Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, 546 Jack Gibbs Blvd., near downtown Columbus and the Short North. This event is free and open to the public with no tickets or advance registration required.

During the week prior to the main festival event many selected festival authors will take part in more than 15 outreach programs in the Columbus area and around the state. A number of programs will be held in public venues while others will be provided for specific populations such as schools and classrooms.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMS

Activities during the May 12th festival will include more than 20 panel discussions on a variety of topics. Authors will appear in a track of five panels, including conversations about their own literary influences, the writing life and the creative process. Additional panel dialogue will explore children’s literature and poetry, along with several “behind-the-scenes” opportunities for new writers to find out more about how to get published. Author roundtables will be devoted to popular genres such as mystery, romance and science fiction.

“Each year, we offer at least one panel on the ‘how-to’s’ of the publishing business and the room is filled to capacity,” said Hengst. “Many people who come to the festival are aspiring writers who are trying to get their work published. This year we’ll have more opportunities for those writers to meet people from inside the publishing industry, as well as talk to authors who will share their own experiences of breaking in to the business.”

In celebration of the 200th birthday of Columbus, there will be a special track of panels about the city, including The Ohio State University, the Lazarus Store and historically haunted places. One panel, “Lit, Lives, and Landmarks,” will introduce a new Ohioana program “Ohioana Library On the Road,” highlighting tours that will begin in June. The Columbus tours will visit sites connected to noted authors such as O.Henry.

“We are excited to have so many nationally recognized authors participating in our sixth festival. They are all Ohioans by birth or residents with books that have been published in the past year,” Hengst said. “They represent every major literary field and genre – fiction (mystery, romance, fantasy, science fiction, and literary fiction), nonfiction (memoirs, history, essays, and cook books), poetry and books for children and young adults.”

THE 6th ANNUAL OHIOANA BOOK FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL AUTHORS
Lisa Abraham, Arnold Adoff, Saundra Crum Akers, J. Kelley Anderson, Yvonne Anderson, Thomas E. Barden, Rebecca Barnhouse, Paul Bauer, Carrie Bebris, Tim Bowers, Gary A. Braunbeck, Regina Brett; Dale Patrick Brown, Christopher Busta-Peck, Mary Kay Carson, Leah Clifford, Kacy Cook, Kambri Crews, Mark Dawidziak, Robb Forman Dew, Darryl S. Doane, David S. Doane, Julie Drew, Jeffrey Ebbeler, Mary Ellis, Terry W. Ervin II, David S. FitzSimmon, Amanda Flower, Carole Gerber, Raimund E. Goerler, Blair P. Grubb, Richard Hague, Karen Harper, Steve Harpster, Sherri Hayes, Susan Gee Heino, Rick Hilles; John B. Kachuba, Nellie Kampmann, Daniel Kirk, Joy M. Kiser, Leonard Kress, Julie Anne Lindsey, Matt Livigni, Tammie Lyon, Donna MacMeans, Jack Matthews, Karen Meyer, Beverly Meyers, David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, Brandon Marie Miller, Dara Naraghi, Mike Olszewski, Karen A. Patterson, Mae Pelster, Nancy Roe Pimm, David Powers, Doug Ramspeck, Robert A. Reynolds, Joyce Richardson, Josh Rolnick, Rafael Rosado, Gregg Sapp, Rose D. Sloat, Larry Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, Jeffrey F. Spieles, Tricia Springstubb, Catherine St. John, Lynne Sturtevant, Marilou K. Suszko, Jane Ann Turzillo, Denise C. Verrico, Christina Wald, Laura Maylene Walter, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Jack Wilson, Angene Wilson, Mary Ann Winkowski, Eric J. Wittenberg, James M. Wood, and Katherine Ziff. The list of authors is subject to change.

Additional festival activities will include a children’s room with programs designed to entertain young readers. The line-up for youth was created and is managed by the Kent State University Library and Information Science students and faculty, along with local librarians.

Food will be provided by popular Columbus food carts and local musicians will entertain during the lunch break. The most recent books published by the festival authors will be available at the on-site Barnes and Noble Bookstore.

For photos and interviews, contact Linda Hengst at the Ohioana Library. Detailed festival information can be found at www.OhioanaBookFestival.org .

The festival is presented by the Ohioana Library Association with major funding provided by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, State Library of Ohio, the Reinberger Foundation, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Ohio Arts Council, and Honda of America Mfg., Inc. The children’s space and activities are sponsored by Huntington Bank, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Margaret Wong & Associates. Our media sponsors are WCBE, Ohio Magazine, and PDG Communications. Along with the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science, twenty-one local and statewide partners and contributors are helping to make the festival program possible including the Toledo Public Library, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Ohio Center for the Book, VOICECorps, and numerous local organizations. The full list can be found on the Ohioana Book Festival website.
www.OhioanaBookFestival.org

Ohio’s libraries are the best in the country. With great collections and high circulation rates, is it any wonder that Ohio is the home of some of the country’s best writers?

Ohioana’s mission is to: recognize and encourage the creative accomplishments of Ohioans, preserve and expand a permanent archive of books, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and about Ohio, and disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, musicians, and other artists to researchers, schools, and the general public. Ohioana is a 501-C-(3) not for profit organization supported by memberships, subscription, gifts, grants, and a subsidy from the State of Ohio.
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